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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (541653)	1/8/2010 11:02:27 AM
From: RetiredNow	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578344

You cannot extract reliable H1N1 death rates from such a small sample pool. The statistical variance is just too high. Ten, you don't know what you are talking about. I do this for a living. I have a nifty calculator I use to tell me what the confidence levels would be for a sample size. To get a 99% confidence level of my figure being within plus or minus 1%, I'd need a sample size of 16,640 on a population of 300M. The sample size from the CDC was 60K+, which means the confidence level is higher than 99% and the confidence interval is less than 1%. So when I said that the pediatric death rates for H1N1 are 41% higher than for regular flu, that was with a 99% confidence level and the population death rates for H1N1 are within 0.53% of the sample mean. Do liberals who pretend to be "former Republicans" always fail at basic math like you do? Wow. You're post was completely incorrect and I just proved it to you. So who's failing at basic math now?